1968 World Binding Championship

5th binding world championship 1968
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UMB
Tournament details
Venue:	Halle aux Draps, Tournai
Opening:	May 8, 1968
Endgame:	May 12, 1968
Attendees:	9
Defending champion:	Robert Tolédano
Winner:	Raymond Ceulemans
2nd finalist:	Jean Marty
3rd place:	Johann Scherz
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	13.11 Raymond Ceulemans
Best ED:	22.22 Raymond Ceulemans
Maximum series (HS):	97 Raymond Ceulemans000
Venue on the map
Tournai
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The 1968 binding world championship was the fifth tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from May 8th to 12th, 1968 in Tournai , in the Belgian province of Hainaut. It was the first binding World Cup in Belgium.

history

On the initiative of the Belgian Billiards Association, a single-binding world championship took place again after 31 years. The winner was also the Belgian Raymond Ceulemans, who was almost unbeatable in the gang disciplines at the time . What has happened in the development of the cover game in thirty years is shown by Ceulemans' new world records. The Austrian Johann Scherz held the world record in the top series for a few minutes. It was in the game against Ceulemans. Scherz scored 91 points, but was soon replaced by Ceulemans with 97 points as the world record holder. Second place went to French all-rounder Jean Marty .

mode

The game was played in a final round "everyone against everyone" up to 200 points.

Final round

Legend

MP	Match Points (winner = 2; tie = 1; loser = 0)
GD	General average
BED	Best individual average by a player
HS	Maximum series
	Best GD of the tournament
	Best ED of the tournament
	Best HS of the tournament
	1st place (gold)
	2nd place (silver)
	3rd place (bronze)

Closing table

space	Surname	MP	Pts	Recording	GD	BED	HS
1	Raymond Ceulemans	16: 0	1600	122	13.11	22.22	97
2	Jean Marty	12: 4	1440	221	6.51	9.52	57
3	Johann Scherz	10: 6	1519	178	8.53	14.28	91
4th	Henk de Kleine	10: 6	1317	213	6.18	10.00	59
5	Laurent Boulanger	9: 7	1498	219	6.84	8.00	58
6th	Norbert Witte	7: 9	1231	255	4.82	7.69	53
7th	Hernan Bustos	6:10	1072	301	3.56	3.92	35
8th	Eduardo Brufau	2:14	1100	240	4.58	9.52	41
9	Kazushigo Katsura	0:16	674	225	2.99	-	15th
Tournament average: 5.79

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helmut Schulz: Billard Sport . No. 7 . Krefeld July 1968, p. 97-99 .
2. ^ J. Babut du Mares: Le Billard . No. 40 . Brussels October 1968, p. 1-4 .